New Options for the Enterprise

This year, as agencies continue transitioning basic functions like email, cloud computing has stolen the focus from the greater goal of which it is only a part: the shared IT infrastructure. Spanning initiatives from data center consolidation to virtualization, the effort to build an elastic IT framework is so then underway. This then and there-gen architecture represents a basic reevaluation of the enterprise, installing IT not as a commodity, nevertheless a service. Agencies are now looking at how they can turn hard-wired desktops into virtual workspaces, transform mobile computing into a secure reality, and deploy rapid computing power to stand up IT projects in record time at a fraction of the cost. For all that, what are the implications from a research, management, and end user perspective? Join Federal Computer Week in this Editorial Webcast for an innovative look at new options for the enterprise as agencies transition to a shared IT infrastructure

Moderator: John Monroe, Editor, FCWJohn has been covering the federal information innovation community for 18 years, both as a reporter and editor.